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Sexual Resilience in Couples

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Couple Resilience

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Sexual resilience, as described herein, is a couple’s ability to withstand, adapt to, and find solutions to events and experiences that challenge their sexual relationship. As a field of research, relatively little is understood about how couples adapt to changes in their sexual relationships and why some couples successfully adapt while others do not. This chapter presents several existing models of sexuality, followed by the authors’ own model of sexual resiliency, the Physical Pleasure – Relational Intimacy Model of Sexual Motivation (PRISM Model). The ways in which this model adds to and extends previous models of sexuality by addressing the relational and dynamic nature of sexuality, and applies to a variety of challenges to sexual relationships, are explored.

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  1. The Tom Baker Cancer Center, University of Calgary, 1331 29th Street N.W, T2N 4N2, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Andrea M. Beck Ph.D. & John W. Robinson Ph.D.

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  1. Ctr. for Applied Psychol. Study at Northwestern Univ., The Family Institute/, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Karen Skerrett

  2. Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Karen Fergus

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Beck, A.M., Robinson, J.W. (2015). Sexual Resilience in Couples. In: Skerrett, K., Fergus, K. (eds) Couple Resilience. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9909-6_4

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